II. Approval of Minutes (MSC
PROSTAK/ODDINO) TO APPROVE THE MINUTES OF MARCH 4, 2004

III. Officer’s Reports

A.President
(Angela Echeverri)

1. Consultation with the Administration

Enrollment Targets:

While we are on target for our
credit FTES, we are probably going to be between 150-350 below target for the
noncredit FTES. This may result in a significant revenue shortfall for the
college as a result. The compensation for noncredit FTES is about $2000 (150 x
$2000 = $270,000 to 350 x $2000 = $700,000).

Noncredit FTES is generated from
several sources: LRC commons (most of noncredit), tutoring, learning skills,
noncredit ESL, citizenship, parenting and senior courses, and others.
Unfortunately, credit FTES cannot be substituted for noncredit, to compensate
for the shortfall. Furthermore, because of past enrollment patterns, LAMC is
locked into a very high percentage of noncredit FTES, which are compensated at
a lower rate ($2000 vs. $4000 for credit FTES). LRC Computers:

Dr. Barrera informed College
Council that reversing the noncredit FTES shortfall is a priority for the
administration and that they decided to upgrade about 60 of the computers in
the LRC with Block grant funds. The initial proposal was to replace the
computers the week after Spring Break and host an open house to encourage
students to use the LRC Commons. Some skepticism was expressed by faculty
representatives at College Council about the practicality of doing this in the
middle of the semester. At the ITAC meeting on 3/30/04, we learned that the
computers probably would not be replaced until the summer.

Secretarial Support for
Academic Departments:

Maria Fenyes, AFT Chapter
President for LAMC, submitted a report to Dr. Barrera detailing the need for
more secretarial support to the Academic departments. According to the
contract, any department with 20 or more full time equivalent faculty members
shall have one FTE office assistant. While most departments at LAMC come very
close, none reach this threshold. The following information was presented:

Maria Fenyes proposed increasing
the secretarial support staff from the current 3.0 positions to 3.5, by hiring
a part-time secretary to help alleviate the heavy workload. She argued that
this would decrease problems with assignments and scheduling. Dr. Barrera
replied that while she understood the need for the position, she could not make
a commitment at this time because there is no hiring policy in place for
classified personnel and because of competing needs for staffing on campus.

Accreditation:

New accreditation standards will
go into effect for the Fall 2004; there will be 4 standards instead of 10. Next
accreditation visit will be in the Spring of 2007 (last visit was in Spring of
2001). Mary Allen from CSU will give a workshop on student learning outcomes on
Friday, April 23rd.LAMC
will be hosting an accreditation workshop for the three valley colleges in
February 2005.

Educational Master Plan (EMP):

EMP Committee held its first
meeting on 3/29/04 and was very well attended. Four subcommittees were formed
to address the following issues: history of academic programs, review of
College goals and Mission Statement, current status of educational programs at
LAMC, and assumptions about the future.

Information Technology Advisory Committee (ITAC):

ITAC held its first meeting on
3/30/04. Officers were elected and a meeting schedule was established.

District Academic Senate:

During the March meeting, DAS
approved changes to the Board rules, which will allow colleges within the
district to develop alternate graduation plans.

Commencement ceremony will take
place on Tuesday, June 8th at 5 PM. Rehearsal and class photos will
occur on Monday June 7th at 4 PM. Faculty Grand Marshal will be
Alice Lal. Former LAMC student Farisa Morales will give the commencement
address.

2. The matter of classified
personnel with degrees participating in graduation was discussed.Last year this body voted this down. Leslie
Milke stated that it should be only those classified who are also adjunct
faculty. President Echeverri will talk to classified and see if there is an
alternative.

B.Treasurer
(Margie Long) Long thanked those faculty who paid their dues last month. She
reported that she

deposited a total of $220 to the faculty checking account. She
then reported on the following:

1.Faculty
Senate Checking Account: $1,657.55

This includes
$400.00 for the (4) $100.00 Academic Senate scholarships. President Angela
Echeverri

was reimbursed
$30.85 with check #224 for the plaque for the outgoing senate president.

2.Carla
Bowman Scholarship:$3,755.36

3.Byron
Iriye Scholarship: (in honor of Carla Bowman)$500.00

4.William
Gallagher Scholarship 0

Long contacted
Mrs. Gallagher-Thompson on March 31

requesting a
check for $1,000 be sent to LA Mission College

for
presentation to two student recipients for an award of

$500.00 each.

5. David Lee Moss
Scholarship$752.39

We have been unable to
contact the source for replenishing this scholarship.

C.Parliamentarian
(Gwen Walker) Travel Funds: Walker reported that, as of last week, all of the
funds had

been used. We increased the individual
maximums amount this year. The committee will meet and recommend

how much to allot for next year. Walker then asked that faculty
send their requests for reimbursement to

academic affairs after attending conferences.

IV. Public Address

A.Cindy
Cooper reported on the drive for a bone marrow donor for her brother. On
Saturday 500 vials

were collected but no match was found. There will be about another
100 tested in the next few days.

An
international search has been going on since last fall with no success so far.
They must find six out

of six matches. There is a cost $65.00 to
test each vial of blood. The family needs money to help

with this and with the international search. If anyone would like to
help with the cost, checks can be

made out to the Jim Fenwick fund and leftwith any of the department secretaries.

B.The
SPRINGFEST is coming on April 17. This is a foundation fund-raiser for
scholarships. There will be

food, wine, and a beer garden. The cost is $25.00 per person,
which is tax deductible. Both Gwen and

in
likepositions and recommendations for consolidation. Focus on academic
support

and help desk support for the campus.

4. Recommendation for
replacement and update of technology on campus.

VI. Reports of Committee Meetings:

A.Council of Instruction (Louise
Barbato)Barbato reported that Bill
Farmer announced the possibility

of our
participation with an early college high school to be located on and off
campus. This would be in conjunction with a proposal to the Gates foundation. The
proposal was to work with a charter school on Sherman Way. Mission College
would be able to use their classrooms afternoons and evenings. These

students would
be taking classes on campus also. We do not know what the status of this is. We
will seek clarification from the president. Last year the Council of
Instruction voted against such a proposal. A vote

taken this year
also did not favor such an enterprise. Among the reasons for lack of support
was the fact

that we no longer have programs to link up to
our local high schools. Clive Gordon stated that recruitment

with our feeder high schools along with the
Jump-Start program were suspended last year.

B.Resource Analysis (Angela
Echeverri)

Resource Analysis Committee Report
(3/2/04 Meeting)

1.Meeting times:
The regular meetings of the Resource Analysis Committee for spring, 2004 will

be the first Tuesday of
each month at 1:30 p.m.The April
meeting will take place on 4/20/04,

due to Spring Break

2. District Budget Committee: Dr. Barrera is the new co-chair of
the District Budget Committee (DBC).The passage of Proposition 57 may mean an
additional $30M to $40M to the District.The college may need to increase enrollment by 3%, 7%, or 11%.If the enrollment increase were 3% or 7%,
there would be no change to class offerings.If an 11% enrollment increase were necessary, the college’s strategy
would be to keep Fall 04 at Fall 03 levels, increase offerings in Spring 05,
and start Summer 05 before July 1.

Savings Plan Update

The college must produce
three financial reports for the District each month.These are the Savings Plan, the Monthly Projection, and the
Electronic Budgeting and Forecasting System (EBAFS).

3. Dean Positions

Dr. Barrera stated that
the administration is considering the creation of new administrative positions:
Associate Dean for E.O.P.& S., Admissions & Financial Aid and Dean for
Technology.

1. Elections: The
committee elected Donna Ayers as vice chair and Deborah Paulsen as recorder.

2. Maury Pearl confirmed that Dr.
Mary Allen will present a workshop on student learning outcomes and assessment
for Mission College faculty on Friday, April 23rd.

3. The committee continued
discussion of the upcoming unit assessment for student services.Maury Pearl, John Cantley, and Mark Pursley
will meet with representatives from student service offices on April 14th.The purpose of this meeting will be to begin
work on developing a set of Student Learning Outcomes for student service
departments.

4. The committee also decided to
review and evaluate the unit assessment that was recently completed for
academic departments.This should help
streamline the process to produce a more efficient system for the next round of
assessments.We request that a
representative from the academic senate join our committee to participate in
this process.

5. Next meeting will be Thursday,
4/29 at 1:00 PM in the Plant FacilitiesConference Room.

E.Assessment and Planning Committees Report:

The chair disseminated the memo
received from the Vice-President of Academic Affairs regarding the proposed
purchase of computers for the Computer Commons. Vice-President Farmer discussed
the danger

of not meeting the non-credit FTES targets this year.Maury Pear’s statistical analysis reveals
that a

significant amount of non-credit
FTES is generated in the Computer Commons, where there has been a propitious
decline in computer-use due to outdated hard-drives. Since LAMC needs to
upgrade its

computers to guarantee student-use and thereby help protect its
non-credit FTES funding, Mr. Farmer proposes that block grant money be used to
immediately purchase approximately 70 new hard-drives and a new server.In addition, an outside contractor will
install these computers, which will cost under $60,000, for approximately
$5,000.Members further suggested
that LAMC should explore additional options to generate non-credit FTES.As an example, Mr. Farmer noted that LAMC
could offer senior education courses on Fridays; such courses would help meet
the colleges target goals for non-credit enrollment and

also improve the use of
facilities.

VII. Reports of Senate Committee Meetings

A. Curriculum (Leslie
Foster) The last date for
updates effective Spring 2005 is this April 12th, please plan accordingly.Also, please remember that everyone
completing a course update or submitting new courses is required to complete
the Library portion (it is mandated by Title V and Accreditation, very helpful
for our students and takes less than 10 min. Richard Rains commented on how easy
the library form was to use and stated that he wished he had looked at the
resources and made recommendations sooner.

B. District Academic Senate
(Michael Climo)—There will be a sub committee ondeveloping a board rule for grant proposals and new initiaves.
The sexual harassment policy was discussed and minor changes were recommended.
The next meeting will be on May 13 at Valley College. The proposed district
emergency equivalence plan may be an item for action at that time.

C.EPAC: (Sonia Soto-Bair) The committee met Tuesday, March 30th at

L.A.
Trade Tech. College.

Summary of Discussion:

1.Possible significant policy
change involving Master degrees without licenses: Example: Nursing does not
require a faculty member to be a licensed nurse; but can teach with a Master's
degree. Discussion referred to discipline. EPAC is requesting a list of
affected disciplines.

2.Disciplines with no minimum
qualifications will be notified for their decision. List available.

3.Disciplines of perspective faculty appealing
district decision for inclusion into hiring pools are now given a 20 day
waiting period to meet and to decide upon these appeals.Otherwise, EPAC will make the decisions.
Some appeals are two years old.

4.Discussion centering on
rejecting, for AA degrees purposes, English and Oral communication taken in
countries where English is not the legal language. Could affect foreign
students.

5.Academic Rank:Should there be local control or district
standardization?Discussion referred to
local Academic Senates.

VIII. Old Business

Educational
Master Plan (Michael Reynolds/Gary Prostak) Met Monday and set up four subcommittees
to

work on projects. There is a tight timeline,
but they are hoping to have a draft to the senate by the